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An alleged fraudster who was arrested on Wednesday by the Mohali Police for deception More than 8,000 people under the pretense of obtaining rental housing were working for an online app that deals in real estate till 2018. Hence the man, known as Paramjeet Singh, became aware of how to buy, sell or rent properties as well as vehicles.
After quitting his job in 2018, Paramjit started scamming people. He started with small sums of money that he scammed from people to avoid the police scanner and has never been caught in the past. An officer investigating the case told The Indian Express that Paramjit Singh would identify properties in cities like Mohali that were about to be leased to tenants. Paramjeet then clicks pictures of the property without the owners’ knowledge.
“He would randomly click pictures of properties that were rented. Sometimes he would enter the property while pretending to be a renter and click pictures from the inside. After clicking the pictures, the accused would upload them to the OLX app and give his mobile phone number so that people looking for housing could from contacting him,” the officer added.
Balongi Station House Officer (SHO), Inspector PS Grewal said that they had identified at least ten phone numbers that Paramjit Singh was using to scam his victims. Grewal added that the investigations so far revealed that the accused was acting alone, but they were looking into all aspects of the case.
Police investigation has so far found transactions worth Rs. 1.44 crore in Paramjeet Singh bank accounts made online from various states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh (HP) and Chandigarh. The officer told The Indian Express that once Paramjit receives money from his victim, he will stop answering their calls. If you still contact him, he will change his number.
The defendant is a graduate and married. He lived in a community on the Kharrar-Landran Road. The police have received a total of 8,138 complaints against the accused, at least 22 of which are from Al-Kharrar only. After investigating how the police came to the conclusion that the man had 8,000 complaints pending against him, SHO Grewal said they uploaded all the phone numbers of the accused to a portal used to prevent financial fraud and found that the same numbers had already lodged complaints against them.
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